Dr. Nourizadeh

A Window to the Fatherland – Friday 9 August 2019

We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

Tonight we speak to our special guest Dr. Mohammad Hossein Sadigh Yazdchi who would share with us his views about why the Constitution Revolution of 1905 in Iran was made by a handful of educated elite and so much sacrifices by the likes of Sattar Khan, but only five clergies’ rulings affected the outcome of this secular revolution which finally ended in the complete victory for the religious establishment in 1979 revolution.

Dr. Sadigh Yazdchi:

The question is much more complicated than this. It must be why the Iranian people did not follow the ideals and thoughts of those who wanted to establish theprinciples of the constitution revolution and those ideal were only limited to the elite.

The fact remains that there had been many obstacles on the path of realizing those ideals which continued up until the 1979 revolution, which finally resulted in the clerical regime overwriting the secular 1905 revolution.

It was not just the despotic system of the Qajar’s monarchy that was the target of the constitution revolution. It had to demolish many other entities that were related to this system, including the aristocracy, the feudalism, warlords and powerful families, to be able to establish a workable secular system of governance for Iran.

We must note that Iran’s traditional political culture has been a religious one since many centuries ago. The definition of Iranian nation had long been structured around religious identity as a people who followed Shia Islam, which provided them with a security against the Sunni countries that encircled it.

That is why the secular constitution revolution of the 1905 could easily be redirected towards a religious path, which was finally overturned completely in 1979 revolution.

A Window to the Fatherland – Thursday 8 August 2019

We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

We continue the program with talking to our special guest of every Thursday, Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, for his views about news of Iran and the Middle East.

I wonder if you have seen the video clip of a lorry that is supposedly carrying vegetables but when it overturns its delivery scatters over the road and becomes chicken skin, while the passers by look at it in disbelief.

Mohsen Sazegara:

Once every now and again the issue of the problems with the country’s food and drugs supplies become the headlines but then are forgotten after a while.

I read in the papers last week that some one had “imported” some out of date and corrupted medicines into the country inside several suitcases and 52 peoplehave become blind after taking them.

In any other country of the world tragedies like this would result in resignation and sacking of all those officials involved in their health and safety institutes.

In US a major pharmaceutical company whose drug had caused the death of a patient has been taken to the court by the House’s relevant committee, but in Iran the Majles deputies are a bunch of useless people that no one takes them seriously.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

Khamenei has done to our parliament the same thing that the despot Mohammad Ali Shah of Qajar did a century ago by turning it into a discredited institute so he could rule over the governments.

Now the Caspian Sea legal status has denied Iran’s historic rights and given them away to Putin’s Russia and the Majles deputies have remained silent while the traitors to Iran’s interests are selling out our country.

Mohsen Sazegara:

Last year this time we did discuss this issue and gave warning that if the Caspian Sea’s borders are re-written and we lose our rights to the Russians and other countries involved in this new pact, then even when the present regime in Iran is gone we cannot complain in any international courts of justice to get our territories back.

A Window to the Fatherland – Wednesday 7 August 2019

We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

We did mention that the Iranian month of Amordad is a significant month in ournational calendar as it coincides with the anniversary of the Constitution Revolution of 1905.

However, it is also a sad reminder of how the current tyrannical and corrupt regime in Iran has murdered, executed and slaughtered so many of our people who daredoppose its rule during this month.

One of these victims has been the late Dr. Shapoor Bakhtiar, who as Dr. Amouzagar (one of his ministers) ha said, millions of Iranians now look upon him as a man who single handedly stood up against one dictatorial regime and gave his life for Iran and the Iranians.

Another crime of the regime was committed by a professional assassin, Akbar Khosh Kooshk, who entered Germany with the sole mission of murdering Fereydoun Farokhzad, the popular Iranian entertainer and showman.

I interviewed Farokhzad before his death who spoke about his own tragedies inlife of dealing with his disabled child, losing his great poet sister Forough and how he had left his loving mum to come and live in exile.

The regime had sent a message to Farokhzad that he is free to come back to Iran and look after his sick mother but it was all a plot to lure him into meeting with Khosh Kooshk who then murdered him at his home.

The regime also killed the son of Reza Fazeli by bombing his shop in London, where he was selling a videotape of a satirical play that criticized the regime.

In the second part of tonight’s program we will look at this year’s hajj and the latest news of Iran and the Middle East.

A Window to the Fatherland/August 2

We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

We continue the program with talking to our special guest Dr. Hossein Bore, for his views about news of Iran and the Middle East.

Over the last three weeks we have been talking about how Iranian opposition groups inside and outside the country could unite and crate a Council for Transition of Power.

You have been pursuing a similar objective for many years and we would like to hear your take on the development of this idea.

Dr. Hossein Bore:

Indeed we have been pursuing this idea tirelessly for many years and it has become obvious to all concerned with this issue that without the participation and unity of all Iranians from different political or ethnic groups our country will not embrace peace and prosperity.

Our peoples have reached the conclusion that they have no choice but to unite to survive this dark and difficult chapter of their history and my understanding is that this council is now in the process of being set up.

Naturally those Iranians who live abroad have a freer hand to work for the establishment of this council and in our congress of Iranian ethnic peoples we had already reached a certain unity in this respect and we are hopeful that soon we should be able to announce the birth of thecouncil for transfer of power in Iran.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

I do not agree with the adjective “national minorities” because it creates a concern among our people. We are only one nation of Iran, which has many ethnic peoples who have lived alongside eachother for thousands of years and they all fit into a larger body called the country of Iran, which is their motherland. Although I do not deny that along with the Persian as our national language they have a local mother tongue as well and their rights must be protected too.

Dr. Hossein Bore:

Under the current rulers the civil, human and ethnic rights of all Iranians have been violated and I hope every one concerned about preserving these rights for all Iranians of different background would take part in this council to determine a better future for our country of Iran.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

I know that Dr. Zaim of the National Front Party of Iran has been in discussions with the representatives of these ethnic and political groups and as a trustworthy and nationalist individual he has always defended the rights of our ethnic peoples.

A Window to the Fatherland/August 1

We begin tonight’s edition of A Window to the Fatherland with Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh reading one of his poems from the book of his collected works.

Dr. Alireza Nourizadeh:

We continue the program with talking to our special guest of every Thursday, Dr. Mohsen Sazegara, for his views about news of Iran and the Middle East.

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